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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

who vs. whom

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00I know this type of questions has been asked before but can you tell me if we can use both of the pronouns before? I thought that when you have prepostions, you usually go with "whom."02br
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00Who/whom did you talk with yesterday?02br
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00Who/whom are you with?02br
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0 The object pronoun 'whom' is hardly ever used in everyday speech, as it is considered very formal. The subject form 'who' is used instead. 0-

— Conchita57

  • 0 The object pronoun 'whom' is hardly ever used in everyday speech, as it is considered very formal.
  • The subject form 'who' is used instead.
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0 The object pronoun 'whom' is hardly ever used in everyday speech, as it is considered very formal. The subject form 'who' is used instead. 0-
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01cite10Conchita5712cite10The object pronoun 'whom' is hardly ever used in everyday speech, as it is considered very formal. The subject form 'who' is used instead.12blockquote
10 01b01font00But, to answer the question, "whom" is the technically correct choice in all the sentences
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0Hi,02br
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00Are you saying that ending a sentence with the accompanying preposition when using 'whom' is not correct or something to be avoided? Which position is yours?02br
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00We should not say:02br
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00Whom are you going with?0-
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10Hi,12br
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10Are you saying that ending a sentence with the accompanying preposition when using 'whom' is not correct or something to be avoided? Which position is yours?12br
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10We should not say:12br
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10Whom are you going with?12br
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Since who is a subjective pronoun and whom is an objective pronoun it becomes a matter of whether or not you can make "who/whom" the SUBJECT of the sentence.
So, a good rule to follow is try to substitute He/She for "who" and if it sounds okay, than it is the correct usage. For "whom" try and substitute Her/Him.

In the sentence: Who are you going with?
Are you going with SHE?
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It is a choice b/w subjetive pronoun and objective pronoun .whom will correctly fit in b'cause sub pronoun hr is YOU .
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